Studio And WGA Leaders To Join Elon Musk, Bill Gates And Other Tech Titans At Senate AI Forum

A gallery of tech trade CEOs, together with Tesla/X’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai, are scheduled to attend a Senate discussion board on synthetic intelligence subsequent month.

Additionally they shall be joined by the president of the WGA, Meredith Stiehm, in addition to different union leaders, together with Charles Rivkin, the chairman and CEO of the Movement Image Affiliation. The assembly, organized by Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, comes as AI is a matter in Hollywood’s present labor strife.

Schumer is billing this as the primary “AI Perception Discussion board,” and it’s scheduled for the morning of Sept. 13. It’s unclear if all the attendees shall be there in individual or seem through videoconference.

Exterior of the strike, studios are involved concerning the influence of AI on safety of content material, whereas additionally they don’t wish to see laws that hinders their very own use of the know-how in manufacturing.

Schumer and senators of each events are holding the boards prematurely of potential regulation.

Others on the listing of attendees embody BIll Gates, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft.

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